Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

To the Puritan all things are impure.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see virtue and cleanness of living to be advanced, increased, and multiplied, and vices and all other things repugnant to virtue, provoking the high indignation and fearful displeasure of God, to be repressed and annulled.

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.

She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.